1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,960 Hello, teachers. Ben Jennings here. I'm here with Miles Scarborough. How you doing, Miles? 2 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:10,400 I'm good, Pastor Ben. How are you? 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:18,280 This video is for session five in our study at Exodus. And the one big difference between 4 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:23,480 this video and previous ones is that with this video, you wrote the outline. 5 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:24,480 I did. 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:25,480 Not me. So this is... 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:26,480 I'm sorry everyone. 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:27,480 This should be exciting. 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:32,280 I'm going to ask you why the Spanish Inquisition. I get to ask you why in the world did you 10 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:33,440 choose these points. 11 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:34,440 Right. 12 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,960 And it should be fun. So do you feel nervous at all? 13 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:38,960 No, I don't think so. 14 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:40,920 This is going to be permanently on the internet. 15 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:41,920 I don't think it will ever... 16 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:42,920 I have a lot of things that are permanently on the internet. 17 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,560 I don't think it will ever come off. 18 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,720 So this particular... So help us understand what's the context, what's going on with this 19 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:50,720 lesson? 20 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,920 Right. So where we're at is that we just finished our last lesson, I guess two lessons ago because 21 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,920 we had a Christmas lesson, but we were talking about the Passover and then Pharaoh says, 22 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,440 okay, get these people out of here and bless me also. 23 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:02,440 Right? 24 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:03,440 Yeah. 25 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,920 So they all leave and then Pharaoh changed his mind. That's what we don't see in this 26 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:07,920 passage. 27 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:15,480 It was a big gap between, I don't know who Jehovah is, get back to your burdens to, yes, please 28 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:17,320 leave as you go, bless me also. 29 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:18,320 Right. 30 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:19,320 Right. Now I knew who God was. 31 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:20,320 Yeah, exactly. 32 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:23,520 But then he eventually changes his mind and says, you know what? I do want to kill him. 33 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:24,520 I want them back. 34 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:25,520 Right. 35 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,640 And I want to punish them and I want them to be mine. And then so he starts going after 36 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:34,040 them and then the people now are stuck at the Red Sea and then they see that Pharaoh's 37 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:40,360 behind them and now they're questioning and this begins their kind of doubt and worry 38 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,160 that they start having as they go through the wilderness. 39 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:43,160 The grumbling phase. 40 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:44,160 Right. 41 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,400 But it's understandable because now they have the Red Sea right in front of them and then 42 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,720 Pharaoh coming to attack them. So what are they going to do? 43 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,360 Right. The session kind of emphasizes the idea of God's power and then our response 44 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,920 to God's power of having faith in how strong he is. 45 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:04,760 I think this may be a theme that comes up a lot, but I kind of feel this way about whenever 46 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,560 you read the Bible, you know, we as Bible teachers can be really harsh on the people. 47 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:09,560 Right. 48 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,840 Like, oh, they're doubting. How dare they doubt and they're so faithless and stuff like that. 49 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:19,400 But and we tend to think I would do it different. Like I know how I would react. I would be 50 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,720 way more faithful in the truth of the matter is we probably would be complaining right 51 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:24,720 along with them. 52 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:25,720 Right. Exactly. 53 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:30,720 So that seems to be kind of part of the part of the lesson we can learn. So the objective 54 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:39,400 statement you wrote in today's lesson is this, that we can strengthen our faith in God, 55 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,280 our faith in God can be strengthened by recognizing three qualities of his power. So this is all 56 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:44,680 a lesson all about God's power. 57 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:45,680 Yes, sir. 58 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:52,200 And you see that demonstrated through Exodus 14, 19 through 31. So the first section you've 59 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:59,080 described this way, God's power leads us through our circumstances. So there's a leading quality 60 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:00,960 to his power. 61 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:10,320 Let's read verse XS 14, 19 through 22. And the angel of God, which went before the camp 62 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:15,680 of Israel, removed and went behind them. And the pillar of the cloud went from before their 63 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,840 face and stood behind them. And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of 64 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:21,840 Israel. 65 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:27,520 And it was a cloud and darkness to them. But it gave light by night to these so that the 66 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:32,840 one came not near to the other side, near to the other all the night. And Moses stretched 67 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:37,880 out his hand over the sea and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong wind all that 68 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:43,120 night and made the sea dry land and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went 69 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:49,240 into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground and the waters were a wall unto them on their 70 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,040 right hand and on their left. 71 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:52,040 Wow. 72 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,640 Right. Sees power there, right? 73 00:03:54,640 --> 00:04:00,240 And I've never thought about verse 19 and 20 before in the sense that like God's providing 74 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:05,200 even before they get to the Red Sea, he's giving them that cloud and he's giving them 75 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,680 even a light so that they can continue traveling during night. And then, and then seeing they 76 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:16,280 get to the Red Sea and then God opens it up, which is like, you've heard that a ton of 77 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:20,520 times since Sunday school, right? But like, like we've said before, this might be the 78 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,840 first time someone in your classes hearing that the Red Sea is part of it. 79 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:31,200 But it's an amazing thing, the power of God just like God wasn't worried by any circumstance 80 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,720 that they were in. And that's why we can see that God's leading them right through that. 81 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:40,440 He tells Moses exactly what to do. Just raise your staff, the waters will part and they 82 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,160 do. Yeah. There's a leadership in that for sure. 83 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:50,400 Right. You know, the pillar of cloud and the fire is actually leading them. But then there's 84 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,640 also a defensive posture that it gives, right? 85 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,000 Right. Cause it's behind them as well too. Right. 86 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,440 Yeah. Verse 19 stood behind them. 87 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:04,640 Right. What do you think the Egyptians would have been dealing with in terms of the Red 88 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,080 Sea? In terms of seeing all of this? How do you think they're thinking? 89 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:13,400 Right. I think there's a sense of fear and like, oh, we're going up against like their 90 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,120 God. I think they would have seen that. They've already been dealing with that. 91 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:20,400 Yeah. Right. So they're like, now we're going back. But personally, I think Pharaoh at this 92 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:28,000 point is just so plagued by his fury and his anger and his hard hardness that he's fine 93 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,120 pushing through. He's like, I don't know if he thinks he can take God. I don't know. 94 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:37,240 But we tend to not act wisely when we're being angry. 95 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:47,640 Right. I would tend to think that the army going after them probably, I don't know, they're 96 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,880 probably were mixed emotions on it. Like there's probably some hatred towards their slaves 97 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:57,760 that are allow leaving. There's probably also some like, man, we keep going up against 98 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,280 this God and it's not going well. You know, flies. 99 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:05,360 Do we really need these slaves? Like slaves? They've been a lot of problem. Right. There's 100 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:12,840 a cost to these slaves here. Yeah. Yeah. So give me some ideas here for application miles. 101 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:17,160 Like when you're talking about leadership and God's power and leadership, how does that 102 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,720 apply? I think it's a beautiful thing where we don't want to like do ice to cheese, right? 103 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,280 And read into the text. Like we're not going to find a Red Sea in our life. Right. You 104 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:30,400 know, you could do that. Right. But there are times when we see these circumstances and 105 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:35,920 our instinct, like even the small things, like just I see any roadblock ever and I automatically 106 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,360 just sometimes think, well, God's failed me or this isn't good and Lord, where are you 107 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,520 at? Are you helping me? Like, how am I going to get through this? And like there's, he's 108 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,160 always helped me through the past, but now this, this new random obstacle is going to 109 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:52,800 be the one that finally does God. Right. But seeing that when I get faced with these, 110 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,960 these hurdles, like be able to look at how he's already providing, he provided and got 111 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:02,080 them out of exit out of Egypt. He had them escape. They exited and then he's even given 112 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:07,800 them a pillar, a cloud and given them light. So he's already providing then. So, okay, 113 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,720 there's a Red Sea. Well, he's going to continue to provide. And once he gets you through that, 114 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,720 he's going to make sure the Egyptians don't follow you and you will continue to provide. 115 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,200 And it's just this continual trust of, he's always said a good precedent. And that's why 116 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,720 these stories are beautiful. Cause you can see, well, he provided, then it's the same 117 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,160 God that will continue to provide now. There's a ditch on either side when it comes to like 118 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:31,600 getting direction from God, I think. Right. And now that I'm on the internet, this is 119 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,720 my official position apparently. Yeah. Right. And that is that like, on the one hand, you 120 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:42,000 can, you're looking for, you know, a sign in every circumstance. So today I had French 121 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:48,640 fries and, you know, I met a French guy at Walmart and then I threw a dart at the wall 122 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,080 and it hit the country of France. So now God wants me to be a missionary in France. It's 123 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:57,480 like, yeah, maybe that's all just coincidence. You know, you don't need to exegete your circumstances. 124 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:04,640 On the other side is to just say God doesn't ever move in circumstances. He doesn't ever 125 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:12,480 impress. He doesn't ever like, you know, that's totally done completely. So don't even worry 126 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:18,120 about praying about what you should do. Just try to use God's wisdom and, and, and don't 127 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:24,680 even pray about it, you know, and I'm very slow to say that you should try to get some 128 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:29,440 kind of quiver in your liver, you know, to try to make a decision. But I do think it's 129 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:35,680 very healthy to pray and say, God, what do you want me to do? And to try and of course 130 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:38,960 we use wisdom and all of that would cause me to seek wisdom. And if he's not going to 131 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:46,760 ask us to do something that he isn't going to equip us to do. And so I think, I think 132 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:54,000 that there is God is powerful and sometimes he does, he does lead and we have to be wise. 133 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:59,680 We have to use the word of God. He has given us, he wrote a book and I definitely, I definitely 134 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:04,480 lean towards like, what does the Bible say? What has God shaped you for? What are the 135 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:09,560 wise people in your life saying? But God uses our circumstances to lead us and he's powerful 136 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:15,120 enough like you said to get us through those difficult things and to get us where we need 137 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:21,520 to go. So I think that's a good thing. And he's definitely, he's not leading in my life 138 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:26,600 like a cloud, you know, like take me to the restaurant, you know, like we're away from 139 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:31,160 the restaurant, you know, but he's doing that here and that's pretty cool. So that leads 140 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:37,600 us to the session, sorry to tune out session to point number two, God's power defeats our 141 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:43,440 enemies. We'll look at verses 23 to 28. It says this, and the Egyptians pursued and 142 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,120 went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all the fairest horses as chariots and 143 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:56,080 as horsemen. And it came to pass that in the morning, watch the Lord looked unto the host 144 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,960 of the Egyptians and threw the pillar of fire in their cloud and the trouble of the host 145 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:03,400 of the Egyptians and took off their chariot wheels that they drove them heavily so that 146 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:08,800 the Egyptians said, let us flee from the face of Israel and Lord fighteth for them against 147 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:13,720 the Egyptians and the Lord said unto Moses, stretch out thy hand over the sea that the 148 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:19,800 waters may come again upon the Egyptians upon the chariots and upon the horsemen and the 149 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:24,600 Lord said unto Moses, all right, I said that and Moses stretched forth his hand over the 150 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,360 sea, verse 27 and the sea returned to his strength when he, when the morning appeared 151 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,280 and the Egyptians fled against it and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst 152 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,280 of the sea and the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the 153 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:42,160 host of the Pharaoh that came into the sea after them, there remain not so much as one 154 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:49,280 of them. Wow, that's pretty cool. Right. Just seeing the once again, his power is displayed 155 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:54,720 in defeating these enemies. I mean, I like verse 25 where it's like taking off the chariot 156 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,280 wheels like they can't even get out of there and they're, they're realized that this part 157 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:05,400 of we've, we've messed up like we're, we're stuck, you know, right. And, and then they 158 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:09,840 want to turn back. Now we actually get to see their emotions and see their, their fear 159 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,840 and they're realizing the Lord's fighting for them and we're losing. Right. And they, 160 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:18,240 I don't know if they're trying to turn around. I bet they are at this point, but now the 161 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,880 chariots are stuck. Who knows what their horses are doing. They're probably freaking out. 162 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:27,480 What is Pharaoh's reaction? He's still saying push forward. But you see that. And you literally 163 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:34,640 verse 25 for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. Like the, the children of Israel 164 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:40,040 are doing really anything other than just following God, right? Literally in the cloud 165 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:44,520 and God's fighting on their behalf. He's already defending them by coming around. Now he's 166 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:49,480 actually fighting for them. Yeah. And these, these are just like their slaves that they're 167 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,840 going after, right? These are just nobodies. Right. Yeah. These are just some Israelites, 168 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:59,760 but they have the Lord like all capital letters. Like we see that God is providing his power 169 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:04,760 stronger. These Egyptians and then seeing Moses stretch forth his hand, like having the mental 170 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,800 picture of being an Egyptian, you're trying to get your chariot out of the sand and then 171 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,600 you look up and then Moses is just raising his hand. Like, Oh, something's about to happen. 172 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:17,120 That would make a great movie. Right. Right. Yeah. And then just seeing the waters like 173 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,600 just start falling and I don't know if it was all at one time or if like the back is 174 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:25,400 falling. It's like dramatic effect, but in some of the movie depictions of them going 175 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:31,680 through, they have like shadows of like fish. Yeah. Right. It's almost like an aquarium, 176 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:37,240 you know, right? And so, you know, it'd be fun if I was creative enough to do like a 177 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,760 cartoon adaptation to have like a shark or a, you know, some fish like staring at the 178 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:49,280 staring right at the like, you know, right? It's kind of, yeah, that would be funny. Yeah. 179 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:56,760 But still seeing that God defeated their enemies and kind of an application thinking through 180 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:02,280 this is like, it's not a, this isn't an imprecatory software, you know, you're just like, and 181 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:06,800 oh, this is good because I can curse my enemies now and get the red sea to fall upon them. 182 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:11,960 More so that we can know because of seeing God always winning these victories, like thinking 183 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:15,920 of our whole battle belongs series on Sunday night, always seeing God winning and that 184 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:21,000 he defeats our, our greatest enemy, you know, if you defeat say, and like, it's not an if 185 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,640 it's already happened that he's already won and conquered sin and death. 186 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,800 I think it's less important to go, God, you need to go after my enemies, you know, you 187 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:35,680 need to fight on my behalf. It's kind of more like, God, I want your enemies to be my enemies, 188 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:39,640 you know what I mean? I want to be on your side. And so therefore, if I'm on your side, 189 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:44,160 I know that in the end, the battle belongs to you, I'm going to win. So there's, there's 190 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:51,120 that kind of like way of thinking it's an application for life. It's not about, you 191 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:56,280 know, I don't want to hate my mission field. I want, I don't, I don't know who is going 192 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:02,320 to respond and with faith in Christ and who's, you know, right, there's even, you know, stories 193 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:07,160 of people who have been martyred or put in prison. And so they're the people whipping 194 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,400 them. I mean, you see that with Paul, like the people beating him are the ones he's like, 195 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,600 you know, the Philippian jailer is a good example. Like he's literally put them in 196 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:19,040 stocks in the hindermost part of the prison. And then after the earthquake, he's like, 197 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,480 don't kill yourself, you know, and then he leads the whole family to Christ. So the person 198 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:29,080 who's your enemy, like humanely speaking at one moment can be, it still could be your 199 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:35,080 mission field, you know? So yeah. So just being on God's side and all of that. And then 200 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:41,320 having that idea that at the end we win, if you're on his side, you win, you know, which 201 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,360 is a pretty cool thing. Right. And like seeing how Jesus treats his enemies, it's, he says 202 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,840 pray for them and he says love them, father, forgive them for they know not what they do. 203 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:56,600 So it's not a, it's seen that this Pharaoh has been overthrown and he's, he's gone and 204 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,880 that we can see that sin has been overthrown and that sin is gone. And that's what we get 205 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,840 to rejoice in. And I think that's a theme we see throughout. And I think we talked about 206 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:09,880 that in, in even session three of that. He's providing this deliverance and he's even providing 207 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,640 it from people that are seeking to bring evil and that we can know no matter what happens 208 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:19,240 in our life, like we have, we have a heavenly citizenship that we can look forward to and 209 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:24,000 that the opposition is not stronger than what God's done. Like even, even our enemies who 210 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,440 we are praying for, sometimes we still feel the, the burden of the pain that comes from 211 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:34,400 that, the mock and the, the outcast, whatever it is, but knowing that we can have hope because 212 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:38,480 of it, because of who God is and that he's one and no opposition can take down what he's 213 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:39,480 already done. 214 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:44,640 That's right. Well, then you, and then we see a progression here. God is leading us through 215 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:49,760 our circumstances. He led them. Then God's defeating our enemies because we're on his 216 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:55,960 side and if God is on our side, he can be against us. Right. But then once we see him 217 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:01,600 deliver, then, then his power then motivates us. It's motivational, right? It motivates 218 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:10,000 us to worship. So God's powers, it leads God's power, um, fights for us, defeats others. 219 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:15,320 And then now it motivates us to worship. And so that's what we see in verse 29 to 31. I'll 220 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:23,960 try not to mess up. Here we go. But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst 221 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:28,880 of the sea and the waters were a wall into them on their right hand and on their left. 222 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,320 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians and Israel saw the 223 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:39,120 Egyptians dead upon the seashore and Israel saw the great work which the Lord did upon 224 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:44,520 the Egyptians and the people fear the Lord and believe the Lord and his servant Moses. 225 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:51,520 And then as you get in chapter 15 to your point, they sang, then Moses sang in the church 226 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,960 and the children of Israel, the song unto the Lord and spake saying, I will sing unto 227 00:16:54,960 --> 00:17:00,720 the Lord for the triumph gloriously the horse and his rider have the overthrown into the 228 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:08,720 sea. So yeah, that speaks to your, um, speaks to your point here, that worship. 229 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:12,720 And we've seen they're walking upon dry land verse 29, the children of Israel, like they 230 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,680 are in the midst of the sea. Like that's a great sentence just that they're walking 231 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:24,480 upon dry land and then they, they escape and that the Lord saved Israel that day. And I 232 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:29,080 love that it says they, no one can take credit for that. Like it wasn't Moses. It wasn't any 233 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:34,280 Israelite that was there. And cause we, we so often try to do that. Sometimes I, I'm 234 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,720 praying for God to help me. And then like he does. And I said, wow, I really did a good 235 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,360 job. Yeah. See how I got through this. 236 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:46,240 Their part is so minuscule as to, it's kind of interesting. Like they had to do something 237 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,840 that demonstrated that they had faith in God, but that's something that they did, that they 238 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:56,320 did could not be ever presented as this is why it happened. Right? Right. So Moses, what's 239 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:00,480 he going to, like, did you see how I put that staff over the sea? That was amazing. You 240 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:06,520 know, like, you know, did you see how we walked behind the cloud? You know, we were so good. 241 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,480 It's like, like they still had to follow God and do their part, but all they were doing 242 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:16,400 is just demonstrating their faith in God. And then faith is the God is the one who's 243 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:20,800 doing all the work. It's the one killing the enemies and moving the Red Sea and all the 244 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:24,400 rest. Right. And then he's the one that deserves all the glory for it. He gets the credit. 245 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:29,200 And that's what they do to their credit is that they, Israel saw the great work for 31 246 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,800 and then what the Lord did upon the Egyptians and they feared the Lord. And that idea of 247 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:37,720 fear is that there's this reverence and awe of, right? Oh, that's our God. And he's really 248 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,640 powerful and we're really glad that we're on his side, you know, and then worshiping 249 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:46,680 him and believing on the Lord. Interesting. Cause you even through this, I would imagine 250 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:52,440 that they're still just because of how stubborn creation is, is there still Israelites wondering 251 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:57,720 like, Hey, is God really for us? Like what? Okay, sure. He's, he got us out of the Egyptians, 252 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,680 gave these plagues. He got us, but now he's got us through the Red Sea. Like we're, it 253 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:06,280 was a check mark. It was a checkpoint of we've gotten out and now they're actually believing 254 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:10,960 in Lord and his serve and now they're actually believing in Moses too. Right. Cause I would 255 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:16,840 have taken me a long time to actually trust Moses cause he was, he was this Egyptian 256 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,240 guy and then he killed and then he killed someone and then he left and then now he's 257 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,520 coming back and now he's like, now I'm going to help. 258 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,360 I'm in charge. God put me in charge. Right. 259 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:28,320 And I talked to a bush. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Talk to a bush. So I have some credibility. 260 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,240 It's all good. Yeah. Here's my ID card. Yeah. 261 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:36,600 But now they're actually believing in him and they're believing in God and saying, okay, 262 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:41,160 he's given us Moses and Moses hasn't failed us and God hasn't failed us. Right. Now we're 263 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:46,040 going to worship him. That's amazing. And it was convicting to me in the sense of, I've 264 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:50,600 seen God do so much in my life and even this week, but it's when was the time I worshiped 265 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,880 him for it and even praised him and thanked him for it. And I see this even sometimes 266 00:19:54,880 --> 00:20:00,000 when, when I, when I pray is that he answers it and I don't think him. I just think it's, 267 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,560 I think of it as a, of a formula. Okay. If the bad thing happens, I pray God answers 268 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:08,240 it, then I'm happy, you know, but I never, and I'm on to the next thing that I need to 269 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,200 pray about. Right. Right. It's like, okay, God, now I have this other thing, but, and 270 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:15,560 that's why I feel so anxious and overwhelmed all the time. Cause I'm not focusing on how 271 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:19,560 he's actually been providing. God, could you give me kids? Oh man, God help me with these 272 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:23,440 kids. Right. Right. God, could you grow my church? Oh my word. What are we doing with 273 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:28,360 all these people? Yeah. You know, and it's like, you never stop in pause and go, Oh, 274 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:32,800 by the way, thank you God. Thank you for what you did. This is awesome. Right. And just 275 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:37,600 worshiping for his, his power and his glory. Like it's a, it's a privilege that we get 276 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:43,200 to be on God's side, you know, right? And that we get to be his servants. Like, I sometimes 277 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:48,520 think we take that, I know I take it for granted, but knowing that he like is so powerful and 278 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:53,560 that we don't have to, nothing's ever taken him by surprise. Nothing never made him off 279 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:58,280 guard. Nothing's ever made him nervous. Right. That's why we can have our face strengthened. 280 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,880 One of the things I like about the outline that you put together, Miles, and I think 281 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:05,000 it's in keeping with how we should think about the whole Bible. And that is sometimes we 282 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,800 get to thinking that this is about Moses or this is about the people or this is about 283 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:13,480 Pharaoh. When first and foremost, this is a story about God. We were learning about 284 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:19,640 God. And this outline, you've kind of told us like, this is God revealing himself as 285 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:26,720 much as it is him delivering. He's saying, I'm a God who, who leads, I'm a God who fights, 286 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:34,280 I'm a God who deserves worship, you know, and that's those general things are true for 287 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:39,600 our lives now, right? Like it's still something he still does those things in life really 288 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:45,520 isn't about us. It's about him. And we have to, if we keep that perspective, then there's 289 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:53,400 a lot of joy and a lot of wisdom that we, that we will receive from him in living out 290 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:58,000 our lives. But if we, if we get into, what are they, what are your, what do your teenagers 291 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,240 say? Main character energy? If we, if we think we're, if we think we're the main character, 292 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:06,280 yeah, if we think we're the main character, then, then we're missing, we're missing the 293 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:12,440 point. Right. Yeah. So that's, that's really, really good. This is a good lesson. I think 294 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:18,680 that we want our people and I think this is going to end up being, this is going to be 295 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,840 the first Sunday of the year. And I think it'll be the 29th. So it won't be the first 296 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:27,120 Sunday yet. Okay. So, okay. So this is the, yeah, this is heading into the new year then. 297 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:31,720 Yes, sir. And getting us focused on God as we head into the new year is probably a good 298 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:38,080 thing. Probably. It is a good thing. Right. Right. Thanks for your, thanks for the input 299 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:43,760 miles and I'll see you a weeks from now on the next lesson. For sure. We may be wearing 300 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:50,840 the same class. Wink, wink. Yeah. Hey, by the way, too, I, I got a, I got a message from 301 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:55,440 Todd or not enough message. He said, Hey, by the way, I heard my shout out on the internet. 302 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,400 Oh yeah, Todd. We love you. So he's, he's, there's at least one person that makes it 303 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:04,200 to the end of our videos. So we'll see if that happens again. All right, teachers. Hey, 304 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:11,240 I hope you have a great Christmas season and don't, don't underestimate what God can do 305 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:16,240 through you because it's not you. It's him. Right. And what, what can happen as we pour 306 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:36,560 into our, into our people. All right. Have a great day.